The quality that just about everyone overlooks when evaluating football players is BALANCE. It is important in all positions but particularly @ the skill positions. Well folks, that kickoff return displayed this kids incredible balance.

Watched play once at Alcoa High School in Tennessee in the semi-final for the state championship. Awesome all the way around. Team and individual players. Alcoa's working on its 8th or 9th straight state championship.

Alcoa and neighboring Maryville play some of the best high school football in the country.

Yeah. I live in the Maysville, KY and every time Kentucky played I cursed the Tennessee coaches for not signing this guy. But, not too much. UT's had its head up its butt the last few years and didn't deserve a player like Cobb.

AJ - Randall "Tex" Cobb was great in "Raising Arizona" and every other movie I saw him in. Wonderful character actor.

Dadvocate- Tex attends the boxing matches at the Blue Horizon and he always gets introduced to the crowd. He is still a local celebrity. I think he was probably 240-250 lbs when he played football in college but now he looks like a lean 195-200lbs. Last time, I saw him the girl he was with had purple hair.

1. There were 14 rookies drafted last April that were born in 1990, and at least some of them will play this Sunday. So this is something of a fluke of scheduling (Cobb will beat out whomever is #2 by about 2.5 days).

2. Cobb is the first to play in an NFL regular season game. Again, because of scheduling, at least some of those 14 rookies mentioned above played their first preseason game a day or two before the Packers (and Randall Cobb) played their first preseason game.

Can't speak to his acting ability, but Tex Cobb was a pretty good boxer in his day. His reputation suffered when he took a severe beating from Larry Holmes in 1982, which overlooks the fact that (a) Cobb went the full 15 rounds against Holmes, and (b) Holmes is one of the all time greats. Cobb has wins over former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks (granted, on the downslope of Spinks' career) and Earnie Shavers, possibly the hardest-punching boxer of all time.

He was actually a better boxer than i remembered...the Holmes fight did make a big impression on me....besides that...I will never say a bad thing about him again after I learned this:

Howard Cosell quit covering boxing because he was so disgusted by Cobb's one-sided loss to Larry Holmes in 1982. In response, Cobb said, "If I eliminate heart disease, if I walk on water, if I come up with a cure for crippled kids, I can't image a greater gift to mankind."